Users who can't reach the site directly can still reach it via Anonymouse and other proxies

This
morning a curious development has arisen. Famed BitTorrent siteThe Pirate Bay has
been down for customers at select internet service providers worldwide.

In the U.S. reports of interrupted visits come almost exclusively from Comcast
Corp. (CMCSA).
In Australia, customers of Optus -- a subsidiary of Singapore
Telecommunications Ltd. (Z74) have been struck with similar issues.
And in Canada Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI.B)
customers are also having problems reaching the site.

Comcast has issued a statement saying it's not blocking The
Pirate Bay. It states, "We're not blocking PirateBay and reports
online indicate users from several ISPs around the world are affected."

Comcast also was caught
in 2007 by Torrent Freak outright blocking
BitTorrent traffic. The company initially denied the claims, but was late
forced into an embarrassing confession that it did indeed block traffic.

This time around it's decidedly less clear whether Comcast and others are
outright blocking the site or are merely seeing some sort of bizarre service
outage stemming from issues on The Pirate Bay's side.

Strangely for affected users pings to the Pirate Bay servers return bits as
expected. And DNS lookups also succeed. But when the routing
reaches thepiratebay.piratpartiet.se -- the final destination -- the site
does not load.

Torrent Freakclaims that
the site is available for afflicted users via the proxy service Anonymouse [link] and other
similar sites. Users should be very wary of clicking through to
unvalidated proxies, as you never know where you might end up.

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